, it's hurting our economy as we speak. we shouldn't be having that debate and by the way, the american people agreed with me that we should reduce our deficit in a balanced way that also takes into account the need for us to grow this economy and put people back to work. >> megyn: well, when it comes to america's 16 trillion dollar debt, and raising our debt ceiling even more in the coming weeks, you just saw, today's hour long news conference summed up in that 60 second exchange and we shortened it down just to give you a flavor. the president does not want to negotiate and he says he has the voters behind him. he wants to congress just let him raise the debt limit or for them to do it. joining me now charles payne from the fox business network and john of left action and wall street journal columnist, the 50 economic indicators that really matter. we were just talking about that sound bite and that exchange with major garrett, formerly of fox and now cbs and the president was testy and didn't seem to much like the questi